Lauren Alaina became a country-and-western star through performing on "American Idol," following the trail that Carrie Underwood, an earlier honoree on this blog, blazed for country singers who wouldn't have become famous otherwise.
Ms. Alaina competed in the talent show's tenth season in 2011 and made it to the final round, even getting to duet with Carrie Underwood herself on Ms. Underwood's song "Before He Cheats." She was only the runner-up on the show's 2011 iteration, but that didn't matter.
Wildflower, her debut album, came out later that year, in October. She was only seventeen. It reached number two on the Billboard country chart, producing hits like "Like My Mother Does" and "Georgia Peaches," the latter title being a term of endearment for attractive young women from Ms. Alaina's home state of Georgia.
It took her more than five years to record a follow-up LP, though she did put out an eponymously titled extended player that featured songs such as the flirtatious "Next Boyfriend" and a song about being true to oneself, "The Road Less Traveled." Both songs appeared on her second album, which took its name from the latter song. These two songs on the The Road Less Traveled album, released in January 2017, were also put out as singles.
Lauren Alaina is just getting started, so it;s likely that she'll be as big a star as Carrie Underwood, if she isn't already.
(No, she's not Italian or Hispanic - she only goes by her first two Christian names professionally. Her full name is Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth.)
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